To: Thinkingallowed@bbc.co.uk
Re: Creolisation: Thinking NOT Allowed
Date: Thursday 26 Jan 06

Dear Laurie et al. at Thinking Allowed,  
 
My goodness, that was a particularly interesting broadcast yesterday, on two hugely important subjects: "community" and "creolisation", which, of course, are also intimately related. Its difficult to know where to start my response.
 
When talking about creolisation, you and your guest laughed a great deal - far more than I remember you laughing with any of your other guests - and my suspicion is that it was nervous laughter, betraying your deep-seated fear of a subject that on the surface you were dealing with in an entirely rational, scientific and disinterested manner. Or am I just projecting my own fear of creolisation onto you?
 
It is possible, if things continue as they are, that when future historians (should there be any) look back at Britain of today, creolisation (or whatever they call it then) will be the most important single phenomenon, since it will go to the very heart of who they are. And they will be viewing it from their own Creole perspective, as we now view it nervously from our perspective as native Europeans.
 
This is a particularly appropriate subject for "Thinking Allowed ", because it is very much off-bounds, surrounded by a high-security fence of imperative political correctness. Anyone who dares approach it is caught in the glare of intimidating search lights and knows themselves to be in the sights of half a dozen "anti-racist" machine guns. Thus, your nervous laughter, Laurie, although I don't suppose you will admit it, even if you are aware of it, because it is probably more than your job at the BBC (the strongest institutional force for creolisation in the country) is worth.
 
I can now feel myself roasting in the heat of all those search lights, as an army of "anti-racists" aim their guns at me.
 
To suggest - or even hint - that there might be something wrong or undesirable about creolisation immediately elicits condemnation as "racist". But I'm going to do so, nevertheless, even if it means being gunned down.
 
I do not think there is anything wrong with a certain amount of creolisation. On the contrary, it adds to human diversity, which I like - so long as it doesn't undermine my own sense of ethnic identity.
 
However, there comes a point, if it proceeds unchecked, when creolisation stops increasing diversity and starts to reduce it, swallowing up native peoples, cultures and identities, which arose because of the relative isolation of human populations in the past. For the last 400 years or so, increasing globalisation has destroyed far more human diversity than it has created, and this destruction in proceeding apace.
 
It is not just Earth's biodiversity (the rainforests etc.) that is in rapid decline, but also its human diversity (racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic etc.). The driving force is the same in both cases (economic forces rooted in man's animal nature; see previous emails), but the latter is also being  greatly facilitated by our - understandable, in view of recent history, but obsessive and misguided - fear of racism, and the equally misguided and perverted celebration of mass immigration (into our already overpopulated part of the world!) and multi-culturalism (in moderation, like the motor car and aeroplane, a blessing, but in practice - because blindly driven to excess by our animal nature - a curse!).
 
Unlike you, Laurie, I am not going to pretend that I am objective and disinterested in respect to this subject (I don't work for the BBC); on the contrary, I feel a very subjective and passionate interest in preserving my racial and ethnic identity, as I'm sure a great many other people do, as well (of all races and ethnicities). I am no longer going to be intimidated by the glare of "anti-racist" search lights or their poison-(racist)-tipped arrows, but am determined to maintain, cultivate and assert (in a civilised, non-violent, humane and inoffensive way) my, and my descendents', identity as native Europeans (i.e. as white men and women).
 
So, there you have it, Laurie  (assuming it's got past the censors).
 
Yours sincerely
 
Roger Hicks
www.crownroad.co.uk (website of "The Crown Road Community Project ", which will give you a rough idea of my views on the other hugely important subject of yesterday's broadcast: "Community").
 

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